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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







No. 17
OMITTED LANDS ALONG THE SNAKE RIVER AND HENRY'S FORK

                 
Certain early government surveys along the Snake River and Henry's Fork in Idaho resulted in land along those rivers not being sold to individuals earlier, and such omitted lands between the original survey line and the meander line of the rivers legally belong to the Federal government.


Loss of good riparian habitat along our rivers is a serious problem and the omitted lands along the Snake River have been identified as the best riparian habitat in the State of Idaho.  Some of the omitted lands (islands in the Snake River) have been proposed for wilderness designation.  Adequate relief exists for the equitable sale of the land to present landowners under cases of hardship where improvements have been made prior to 1961 under Public Law 87-469.


The F.W.O.C. urges the Idaho Congressional delegation and the Bureau of Land Management to retain as much of the omitted lands in the public domain as is consistent with P.L. 87-469.


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